Altova Mailing List Archives>Archive Index >xml-dev Archive Home >Recent entries >Thread Prev - >Thread Next - Re: [xml-dev] Semantic Web permathread, iteration n+1 (was Re: [ xml-dev] InfoWorld agrees with Elliote Rusty Harold) RE: [xml-dev] Semantic Web permathread, iteration n+1 (was Re: [ xml-dev] InfoWorld agrees with Elliote Rusty Harold)To: "'DuCharme, Bob (LNG-CHO)'" <bob.ducharme@----------.--->, 'Elliotte Rusty Harold' <elharo@-------.---.--->, xml-dev@-----.---.--- Date: 6/3/2004 8:17:00 PM Ever try to query a database for which you have no schema? Think of hooking up an ad hoc query generator to a distant database that changes from time to time, might be in a different natural language, and so forth. Metadata starts to look very appealing to the human. Sometimes you don't want a list of URIs back; you want a report. len From: DuCharme, Bob (LNG-CHO) [mailto:bob.ducharme@l...] "I'd love to see the semantic web movement more concerned with finding and generating usable metadata and less focused on what to do with that metadata come the revolution. | ||||||
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